Daniel Ash

Visiting music lecturer, University of Winchester
I am a highly creative, passionate and hard-working musician with over twenty years of experience writing, recording, and performing music. I currently work for Rocksteady Music School — the UK’s largest and fastest-growing rock school — in the unique role of ‘Arranger’.

In 2019, the Head of Creative Writing at the University of Winchester invited me to guest lecture on my own songwriting process. Following the success of this initial lecture, I have continued to teach at The University Of Winchester every year as a Visiting Lecturer, and have been co-running the module ‘Composing Song Lyrics’ with module leader Glenn Fosbraey for the last three years.

I am also a proud trustee for the music therapy charity George’s Rockstars. In 2023, I wrote and produced a Christmas single (George's Rockstars - Let's Make Christmas Loud!) for the charity, which raised over £3,000 in sales and local performances. In December 2023, the song was announced as the South Coast Number One Single by Voice FM.



I have recently finished work on my first book Exploring Personality and Performance in The Beatles: Becoming the Fab Four. I have co-authored this book with Glenn Fosbraey, and it is due to be published by Cambridge Scholars in 2024.

I have been the sole songwriter and frontman in numerous bands, and have gained a wealth of experience playing my songs in venues up and down the U.K. I am proficient on guitar, bass, keys and drums, and am a strong singer. I currently write and perform my own solo music under the guise of Teenage Waitress. As part of this project, I have released two albums through the record label Colorama Records. My songs have been played frequently on BBC Radio, 6Music and Radio X. My music has also been featured in MOJO and Shindig magazines, and Tim Burgess awarded my 2020 album Love & Chemicals its own Tim’s Twitter Listening Party. I have been described as a “great young songwriter” by a musical hero of mine, Paul Weller, who has frequently invited me to his recording studio to create music and to open for his band on tour. I have also performed in various other tribute bands such as The Silver Beatles and Lasagna For One (a tribute to Flight Of The Conchords). I have had the pleasure of performing as a frontman in venues such as London’s Eventim Apollo, The Cavern Club, Plymouth Pavilions, and the main stage at Victorious Festival 2019. I am currently working on my second book, titled Ten Songs which focuses on my experiences and memories of both songwriting and performing.